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While this species mostly works freshwater bodies, it does sometimes visit coastal mudflats. This one photographed at a dam a few minutes walk from home. The bird was feeding on freshwater crustaceans (yabbies) and was doing very well. It's a juvenile as shown by the spotty neck. So I hope this qualifies as a shorebird as I'm not clear if it was for purely saltwater species? This is an uncropped frame.

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Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/2500 sec, f7.1, ISO 640. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR applied to bird and stronger to background. Sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur: usually 0.3 to 0.4 pixels at 50-60%) after final size reduction.